Sitaram Yechury was re-elected general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] at the close of the five-day 23rd party congress here on Sunday.
The reconstituted Polit Bureau, the party’s apex decision-making body, has 17 members, including for the first-time in its 58-year history a Dalit member, Ramchandra Dome, a medical doctor and a seven-time Lok Sabha member from West Bengal. A truncated, 85-member central committee with 15 women and 17 new faces, was also formed at the party congress which, according to Mr. Yechury, showed a “united resolve to take on the challenges of the present times.”
The outgoing central committee had 95 members. One position in the new central committee has been kept vacant.
